Description

A handbook of high thermal performance construction details due for release by mid-2021 will be indispensable to New Zealand architects and designers as well as builders, suppliers and consenting officials.

As part of its Building for climate change programme, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has signalled that the New Zealand Building Code requirements under clause H1 Energy efficiency will change. H1 will require better performance in the thermal envelope of new buildings.

Scope

This article includes:

• Need for high-performance details
• Providing practical solutions
• Focus moves to junctions
• Looking to the future
• A word of caution
• Available mid-2021